Job 21:19 Parallel Translations

"You say, 'God saves a person's punishment for his children.' God should pay back that person so that he would know that it is a punishment.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

ASV:

Ye say , God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

BBE:

You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

DBY:

+God layeth up the punishment of his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know it:

ERV:

Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.

JPS:

God layeth up his iniquity for his children!' --let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.

WBS:

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

WEB:

You say,'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

YLT:

God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.

Job 21:19 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 20:5 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Jeremiah 31:29 "In those days they will not say again, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Ezekiel 18:2 "What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers eat the sour grapes, But the children's teeth are set on edge '? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

21:19 Layeth up - In his treasures, Rom 2:5. Iniquity - The punishment of his iniquity; he will punish him both in his person and in his posterity.

MHC:

21:17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness and justice of God. Even while they prosper thus, they are light and worthless, of no account with God, or with wise men. In the height of their pomp and power, there is but a step between them and ruin. Job refers the difference Providence makes between one wicked man and another, into the wisdom of God. He is Judge of all the earth, and he will do right. So vast is the disproportion between time and eternity, that if hell be the lot of every sinner at last, it makes little difference if one goes singing thither, and another sighing. If one wicked man die in a palace, and another in a dungeon, the worm that dies not, and the fire that is not quenched, will be the same to them. Thus differences in this world are not worth perplexing ourselves about.

CONC:

Giveth Iniquity Keeps Knoweth Layeth Lays Man's Punishment Recompense Repay Rewardeth Sons Sorrow Stored Stores Themselves

Children God Iniquity Keeps Lays Punishment Recompense Repay Rewardeth Sorrow Stored Stores Themselves

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